Spooky coincidence: Dave Fleminger just discovered this flyer on the 25th anniversary of the gig it advertised! Manual Scan and the Answers teamed up at the Che Cafe on March 8, 1983, and shook the sleepy co-op to its rafters.
I believe this was about 10 minutes before I met the Answers, but it’s likely the night Noise 292 guitarist David Rives first encountered the band. I remember the moment he told me he’d discovered the great musicians/crazy scene I’d been theorizing about while listening to Barrett and the Velvets in darkest Encinitas. And then of course it turned out Noise 292 vocalist/guitarist Kristin Martin knew the whole crowd and had even played with the redoubtable Mr. Fleminger (and fellow Manual Scan expat Paul Kaufman) in the legendary Lemons Are Yellow. Pure kismet as far as I was concerned; I never looked back, and finding folks like Hair Theatre in Carlsbad and the Rockin’ Dogs in Poway just confirmed that we were onto something. (Or on something. Often both at once.)